So eastward where by Thames the Trinobants were set, To Trinovant their town ... That London now we term ... The Saxons ... their east kingdom called [_Essex_]. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xvi. (1613). =Trinquet=, one of the seven attendants of Fortunio. His gift was that he could drink a river and be thirsty again. “Are yon always thirsty?” asked Fortunio. “No,” said the man, “only after eating salt meat or upon a wager.”--Comtesse D’Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“Fortunio,” 1682). =Trip to Scarborough= (_A_), a comedy by Sheridan (1777), based on _The Relapse_, by Vanbrugh (1697). Lord Foppington goes to Scarborough to marry Miss Hoyden, daughter of Sir Tunbelly Clumsy, but his lordship is not known personally to the knight and his daughter. Tom Fashion, younger brother of Lord Foppington, having been meanly treated by his elder brother, resolves to outwit him; so, passing himself off as Lord Foppington, he gets introduced to Sir Tunbelly, and marries Miss Hoyden before the rightful claimant appears. When at length Lord Foppington arrives he is treated as an impostor, till Tom Fashion explains the ruse. As his lordship behaves contumeliously to the knight, matters are easily arranged, Lord Foppington retires, and Sir Tunbelly accepts Tom Fashion as his son-in-law with good grace. =Tripe= (1 _syl._), the nickname of Mrs. Hamilton, of Covent Garden Theatre (1730-1788). =Triple Alliance= (_The_). 1. A treaty between Great Britain, Sweden, and the United Provinces, in 1668, for the purpose of checking the ambition of Louis XIV. 2. A treaty between George I. of England, Philip, duke of Orleans, regent of France, and the United Provinces, for the purpose of counteracting the plans of Alberoni, the Spanish minister, 1717. =Trippet= (_Beau_), who “pawned his honor to Mrs. Trippet never to draw sword in any cause,” whatever might be the provocation. (See TREMOR.) _Mrs. Trippet_, the beau’s wife, who “would dance for four and twenty hours together,” and play cards for twice that length of time.--Garrick, _The Lying Valet_ (1740). =Tripping as an Omen.= When Julius Cæsar landed at Adrumētum, in Africa, he happened to trip and fall on his face. This would have been considered a fatal omen by his army, but, with admirable presence of mind, he exclaimed, “Thus take I possession of thee, O Africa!” A similar story is told of Scipio. Upon his arrival in Africa, he also happened to trip, and, observing that his soldiers looked upon this as a bad omen, he clutched the earth with his two hands, and cried aloud, “Now, Africa, I hold thee in my grasp!”--_Don Quixote_, II. iv. 6. When William the Conqueror leaped on shore at Bulverhythe, he fell on his face, and a great cry went forth that the omen was unlucky; but the duke exclaimed, “I take seisin of this land with both my hands!”